Fake respondent project?
I completed a survey at the beginning of the month for Respondent that was still showing as "invited." I messaged the researcher multiple times to no avail, and finally reached out to Respondent and got this response:
"Thank you for reaching out and flagging this to us. We have been made aware of multiple projects matching this description today.
The facilitator(s) of these “Avid Halloween Decorator?” are incorrectly using Respondent in an attempt to earn referral bonuses from various online shopping applications. Typically, our systems (and the humans behind them) catch this sort of platform misuse before they ever post or invite participants, but this one was uniquely detailed, complex, and well disguised.Such behavior is a direct violation of our platform Terms of Service, and violates our Privacy Policy.
As such, we have removed these researchers, all of their projects, and closed all communications to/from them. We are continuing to audit our platform and shutdown additional examples as they are found. We recommend deleting any data and closing out any shopping application accounts associated with these “projects” if you do not intend on using them in the future. Please let us know if we can answer any additional questions."
I'm just curious if that has happened to other people before. This particular survey didn't take a tremendous amount of time (in retrospect the incentive was too good to be true) so it's not a huge deal-just wondering if it's truly an anomaly for Respondent.
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